Language Switching Costs in Bilingual Visual Word Recognition

By Michael S. C. Thomas, Alan Allport. 2000

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Is language control just a form of executive control? Evidence for overlapping processes in language switching and task switching☆☆☆ (2017, unknown): “In Thomas and Allport (2000), this process was further elaborated by indicating that language control, just like executive control, occurs via task schemas.”
Foreign language knowledge can influence native language performance in exclusively native contexts (2002, background): “Alternatively, the results might be explained with distributed models of bilingual processing (e.g., Thomas, 1997; Thomas & Allport, 2000 ), which allow for noncatastrophic transitions in behavior between form-identical and -nonidentical items.”
Reading words in Spanish and English: Mapping orthography to phonology in two languages (2007, result): “…of cross language activation as a function of the similarity of the orthographic input is compatible with recent work demonstrating that under some circumstances language-specific orthographic cues can be used in word recognition (Vaid & Frenck-Mestre, 2002, but see Thomas & Allport, 2000).”
Cognitive Processes in Second Language Learners and Bilinguals: The Development of Lexical and Conceptual Representations (2008, methodology): “The alternative is to assume that mechanisms external to the lexicon constrain the manner in which the output of lexical activity is utilized (e.g., Green, 1998; Thomas and Allport, 2000).”
Testing the Language Mode Hypothesis Using Trilinguals (2003, background): “…the relative activation state of languages in an experiment, there is some evidence that language switching effects (i.e. the effect of the language of a previous item on the recognition of a target item) do not originate from within the lexicon (Thomas & Allport, 2000; Von Studnitz & Green, 1997).”
Language switching and language competition (2012, background): “This observation suggests that the switching cost per se is not directly related to inhibitory processes, but that it originates outside rather than inside the bilingual linguistic system (e.g. Thomas and Allport, 2000).”